Wye House

Mary D. Tilghman, who spent the past two decades preserving Talbot County's historic Wye House plantation, which has been occupied by her family since 1659, died there Friday of heart failure. She was 93. "She was quite a lady and the great steward of Wye House. It is a seven-part Georgian-period house that was built in 1782 and is an extraordinary one," said Walter G. Schamu, a partner in the firm of Schamu, Machowski, Grego Architects, who designed several projects at the house.

Mary D. Tilghman, who spent the past two decades preserving Talbot County's historic Wye House plantation, which has been occupied by her family since 1659, died there Friday of heart failure. She was 93. "She was quite a lady and the great steward of Wye House. It is a seven-part Georgian-period house that was built in 1782 and is an extraordinary one," said Walter G. Schamu, a partner in the firm of Schamu, Machowski, Grego Architects, who designed several projects at the house.

John Addison Singer Tilghman, a retired Baltimore businessman and descendant of the owners of historic Wye House, died of leukemia Sunday at his Ruxton home. He was 56. Mr. Tilghman was born in Baltimore and raised in Ruxton. He was a 1969 graduate of St. Paul?s School and attended Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va. With several college friends, Mr. Tilghman launched the Far East Trading Co. in Hyannis, Mass., in the 1970s, selling Asian handcrafts. He later returned to Baltimore and established a company that imported furniture and clothing made in Latin America.

John Addison Singer Tilghman, a retired Baltimore businessman and descendant of the owners of historic Wye House, died of leukemia Sunday at his Ruxton home. He was 56. Mr. Tilghman was born in Baltimore and raised in Ruxton. He was a 1969 graduate of St. Paul?s School and attended Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va. With several college friends, Mr. Tilghman launched the Far East Trading Co. in Hyannis, Mass., in the 1970s, selling Asian handcrafts. He later returned to Baltimore and established a company that imported furniture and clothing made in Latin America.

EASTON -- In his vaunted autobiography, abolitionist and diplomat Frederick Douglass vividly describes life as a slave on a prominent Eastern Shore plantation, with a "great house" he recalled as an "elaborate exhibition of wealth, power and beauty." The imposing estate, by the waters of the Wye River near this Talbot County seat, still stands and is still home to the family who owned it when a young Douglass kept fireplaces stocked with wood. Listed as a national historic landmark, the Wye House, built in the late 1700s, has been studied for its clues to 18th- and 19th-century America.

Dr. Marilyn CosbyChildren's dentistDr. Marilyn Kay Cosby, who began practicing children's dentistry in Baltimore in 1973, was found dead of undetermined causes Saturday after collapsing at her home on Steele Road. She was 50.A member of the American Dental Association and the International Association of Orthodontics, she also taught in the 1970s at the University of Maryland Dental School.A graduate of the University of Indiana and its dental school, she also studied pedodontics and children's dentistry at Ohio State University.

Anne Battams, 82, painter, descendant of Md. settlers Anne Lloyd Battams, a Baltimore painter and descendant of early Maryland settlers, died Sunday of pneumonia at Union Memorial Hospital. The Guilford resident was 82. Mrs. Battams, who continued painting until nearly the end of her life, was known for her impressionistic portraits and still lifes. A Cambridge native, Anne Lloyd Bayly was a direct descendant of the Lloyds who settled in Talbot County in 1649 and later built Wye House and Wye Heights, two of Maryland's historic Eastern Shore homes.

Charlotte Lee Wheeler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rexford Lee Wheeler, III of Baltimore was wed to William Sherman Gordon, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. William Sherman Gordon of Keene, Virginia on April 28th. The bride is a graduate of Calvert School, The Bryn Mawr School, Washington and Lee University and the University of Baltimore School of Law. She is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John T. King, III and the late Mr. and Mrs. Rexford Lee Wheeler, Jr., all of Baltimore. The groom is a graduate of Saint Anne's-Belfield School in Charlottesville, Virginia and Appalachian State University.

Joseph DeVries Beckley, former owner of an interior painting contracting company known for its work on historic houses, died of complications from a stroke Dec. 26 at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Green Spring Valley resident was 95. Mr. Beckley, who was known as Pat, was born in Baltimore and raised in a home on the old 40th Street campus of Roland Park Country School. He was a 1926 graduate of the Severn School and studied architecture at what is now Maryland Institute College of Art. He began working in 1926 for John D. Beckley & Sons, the painting company his father established.

Michael Frederick Trostel, a noted historic preservation architect, died Monday of cancer at Maryland General Hospital. The Bolton Hill resident was 67.He restored or adapted for reuse about 40 structures in Maryland, including Easton's Third Haven Friends Meeting House and Old St. Paul's Rectory in Baltimore."

EASTON -- In his vaunted autobiography, abolitionist and diplomat Frederick Douglass vividly describes life as a slave on a prominent Eastern Shore plantation, with a "great house" he recalled as an "elaborate exhibition of wealth, power and beauty." The imposing estate, by the waters of the Wye River near this Talbot County seat, still stands and is still home to the family who owned it when a young Douglass kept fireplaces stocked with wood. Listed as a national historic landmark, the Wye House, built in the late 1700s, has been studied for its clues to 18th- and 19th-century America.

Dr. Marilyn CosbyChildren's dentistDr. Marilyn Kay Cosby, who began practicing children's dentistry in Baltimore in 1973, was found dead of undetermined causes Saturday after collapsing at her home on Steele Road. She was 50.A member of the American Dental Association and the International Association of Orthodontics, she also taught in the 1970s at the University of Maryland Dental School.A graduate of the University of Indiana and its dental school, she also studied pedodontics and children's dentistry at Ohio State University.

Dr. R. Carmichael Tilghman, a compassionate internist at Johns Hopkins Hospital known for his work with pregnant women suffering from heart disease, died of cancer Thursday at Wye House, his Talbot County residence. A member of a long-established Eastern Shore family, Dr. Tilghman was 95.One of Hopkins' best-known physicians and faculty members for nearly 50 years, he was regarded as a gifted diagnostician and was known for his keen ethics, optimism and gracious manner."He was a magnificent Maryland gentleman," said Dr. Richard S. Ross, dean emeritus of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

On a recent fall day, gardeners at Franz Burda's home were putting in 20,000 tulip bulbs. Once they've bloomed next spring, each bulb will be dug up and donated to charity.The German publisher's three full-time staff members clip and groom the impeccable gardens and emerald-green lawns, as well as tend the raised swimming pool on the $5.1 million estate.For formal dinners, Burda's starched damask cloths are ironed on the tables -- after they are sprinkled with Pellegrino, some say -- before the guests jet in.Palm Beach?